Defensive Cycling

[Origamist]

Defensive Cycling:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/02/fitness

 

[ChrisKH]

Fair comment. It has worked for me more recently, insofar as cars didn't overtake or gave me a wide berth but they still get the hump that you've slowed them down and use thir horn in retaliation when overtaking. It's never to indicate they are there.

 

[Cab]

Assertive vehicular cycling is a minimum requriement to remain safe and reduce conflict when cycling in a city. Seems to me that whats described there (looking over the shoulder, maintaining a prominent position, etc.) is precisely the same thing.

 

[yenrod]

Talking of looking behind you: I use the mirror Ive now got - a hell of a lot!

Still, look though.

 

[fossyant]

Mirror.... Yenners...thought you were too hard for that....

I find a good eyeball at a driver behind does stop them overtaking.

 

[Origamist]

Assertive vehicular cycling is a minimum requriement to remain safe and reduce conflict when cycling in a city. Seems to me that whats described there (looking over the shoulder, maintaining a prominent position, etc.) is precisely the same thing.

If anyone wants to tackle the Old Testament of vehicular cycling, John Forester's "Effective Cycling" (6th Ed) is accessible online:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/9zpq

Whilst it's aimed at a US audience, it was a key source for Franklin's "Cyclecraft" - the New Testament of vehicular cycling.

 

[Bollo]

If anyone wants to tackle the Old Testament of vehicular cycling, John Forester's "Effective Cycling" (6th Ed) is accessible online:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/9zpq

Whilst it's aimed at a US audience, it was a key source for Franklin's "Cyclecraft" - the New Testament of vehicular cycling.

If this forum the 'Book of Revelations' of vehicular cycling then?

 

[Origamist]

If this forum the 'Book of Revelations' of vehicular cycling then?

I'd say Cyclechat is part of the Apocrypha.

 

[BentMikey]

Assertive vehicular cycling is a minimum requriement to remain safe and reduce conflict when cycling in a city. Seems to me that whats described there (looking over the shoulder, maintaining a prominent position, etc.) is precisely the same thing.

LOL, that'll get Origamist's goat.

 

[Bollo]

I'd say Cyclechat is part of the Apocrypha.

 

[tdr1nka]

Two things got me about that article.
One was the caption to the pic at the top, the cyclist is hardly 'braving' the boulevards as he appears to be in a dedicated bus and cycle lane with a curb seperating it from the rest of the traffic.
And two, why are these journos writing stuff like this when this advice is readily available in the books mentioned above? You'd think they'd do their research before writing about it as if it was their idea.

 

[Origamist]

LOL, that'll get Origamist's goat.

You're funny, but deluded BM; that's why I'd never put you on ignore!

 

[Origamist]

Two things got me about that article.
One was the caption to the pic at the top, the cyclist is hardly 'braving' the boulevards as he appears to be in a dedicated bus and cycle lane with a curb seperating it from the rest of the traffic.

Maybe that's why they said the cyclist was braving it?!

And two, why are these journos writing stuff like this when this advice is readily available in the books mentioned above? You'd think they'd do their research before writing about it as if it was their idea.

That's a bit unfair as people were looking over their shoulders before it was written down in books

 

[tdr1nka]

That's a bit unfair as people were looking over their shoulders before it was written down in books

That is very true, depending on what you'd done or who was after you I suppose

 

[Origamist]

am I on ignore as well?!?!

I don't use the ignore function - you're on my buddy list